Translator's note: An elegy for Vladimir Iosifovich Ufliand (1937-2007),
poet and graphic artist, one of Lev Loseff’s close literary friends in
Leningrad. Loseff first dedicated a poem to him in 1962 (see http://ufland.narod.ru/s08textuflandu.htm),
and then, in the USA, edited his first published collection (Тексты 56-77, Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1978). Ufliand’s
poetry began to be published in Russia only after 1991, with Стихотворные тексты (СПб.: Петрополь,
1993). See also Loseff’s ‘Народный поэт’, Звезда, 1(2007), reprinted in Меандр, pp. 349-351); and ‘Живое тепло’, НЛО, 86(2007), reprinted in Меандр, pp. 352-359.